bake

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₃g-
2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰh₃g-
3. Proto-Germanic*bakaną
4. Proto-West Germanic*bakan
5. Old Englishbacan
6. Middle Englishbaken
7. English todaybake

From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”). Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).

Words from the same roots